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Oct 23, 2024 · Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Puritans became noted in the 17th century for a spirit of ...
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in the image of what they believed to be the biblical ideal. “At the simplest level, puritans were those who sought to reform themselves and their society of the remnants of Roman Catholic teachings and practice then found in post-Reformation England during the mid-sixteenth century, such as using clerical vestments and kneeling to receive the ...
The purpose of this Very Short Introduction is to present the puritans as they were, to provide a clear explanation of what they believed, how they worshipped, how they lived their everyday lives and interacted with their fellow believers and the broader world, and why the movement as such came to an end.
Series: Cambridge Companions to Religion. Subjects: History, Religion, Church History, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest, History of Ideas and Intellectual History. Collection: The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy and Religion. 30.99 (GBP) Digital access for individuals. (PDF download and/or read online)
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PURITANISM. ‘Puritan’ was originally a term of contempt, and ‘Puritanism’ has often been stereotyped by critics and admirers alike. As a distinctive and particularly intense variety of early modern Reformed Protestantism, it was a product of acute tensions within the post-Reformation Church of England.
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and efforts to give puritanism a precise definition, then and now, create an arti ficial coherence. Puritanism was more a problem generated by the structure of History Department, LeConte Hall, University of Georgia, 30602, USA mwinship@uga.edu * I thank William Bulman, Peter Lake, the editors of this journal, and the anonymous readers for
